Up Until Then

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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 19:33:32 -0400
From: Geoffrey Smith 

 
Subject: g/gorka_john/up_until_then.crd


UP UNTIL THEN
by John Gorka
>From the album "Out of the Valley" High Street Records, 1994


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They dropped a dime on the girl in the parking lot
        
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Who was looking for a man of steel
          
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Who would fill up her nights with forget-me-nots
      
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And a dream no one else could reveal

    
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Her new man said to meet him at eight
    
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She came in dressed to the nines
       
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But by ten it was clear he was more than late
        
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And she just wouldn't take it this time

    
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The bartender said she had had enough
          
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That he'd call a cab to take her somewhere
        
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But she wasn't a stranger to loneliness
        
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She had grown up and spent her life there

CHORUS
     
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Up until then, up until then
            
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It happened over and over again
     
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Up until then, up until then, up until then

     
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Well practice had increased her tolerance
            
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And she had hardly eaten all day
        
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She was all hyped up on her new romance
        
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But she drank in the usual way

    
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She stepped out to breathe and to dry her eyes
   
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To check her machine just in case
       
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He had called to excuse or apologize
         
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When she saw his unpenitent face

   
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He approached with a girl she had seen before
  
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A bimbo up from Raspberry Street
        
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When he saw her he laughed and so did the whore
               
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They dropped a ten dollar bill at their feet

[CHORUS]

[INSTRUMENTAL BREAK: 
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She was small he was tall but she blocked his path
      
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She explained in unprintable words
    
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The reason she seized him so full of wrath
               
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That more than half of the neighborhood heard

    
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She sprayed him with mace from her pocketbook
         
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And then kicked in his personal zones
    
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Her high heels would ruin his perfect looks
           
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She left a couple of unbroken bones

         
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Well the bimbo she ran in to get the cops
        
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But the owner had called from the bar
        
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It took two cars with dogs just to make her stop
    
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I'm told that's how some women are

[CHORUS]

               
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They dropped a dime on the girl in the parking lot
              
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But she would suffer in no permanent way
    
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She spent thirty nights on a county cot
            
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And she's regarded with fear till this day

     
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Up until then, but never again
            
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It happened over and over again
     
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Up until then, up until then, up until then


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Now she's tending bar where the Pagans
    used to meet
         
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And he's living with that bimbo up on
    
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    Raspberry Street

Outro: 
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Transcribed by Geoffrey Smith    geosmith@iwaynet.net
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